Herb

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

n. Grass; herbage.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A plant in which the stem does not become woody and persistent, but dies annually or after flowering down to the ground at least: thus distinguished from a shrub or tree, which has a woody stem or trunk.

n. Specifically A herbaceous plant used officinally.

n. That part of a vegetable which springs from the root and is terminated by the fructification, including the stem or stalk, the leaves, etc.

Furthermore, we have mutual friends in Herb Leibowitz, founder and editor of Parnassus Poetry Review and Susan Yankowitz, novelist and award-winning playwright (her gorgeous play Night Sky is among her more oft-produced and translated plays, but I digress).